Willoughby Kipling

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Willoughby Kipling is a fictional character in the DC Comics and Vertigo Comics universe, created by Grant Morrison and appearing mostly in Doom Patrol.

Morrison is believed{[cn}} to have based Kipling on Richard E. Grant's character Withnail, in the film Withnail and I.

Like Withnail, Kipling dresses in a long trenchcoat, with slicked back black hair, consumes vast amounts of cigarettes and abuses alcohol.

He is a member of the mystic Knights Templar, practises a bizarre form of black magic and is a self-proclaimed expert on the occult.

It is understood^{[citation needed]} that Kipling was created by Morrison because he was not permitted to use the occult character John Constantine in his run as writer on Doom Patrol.

Appearances: Doom Patrol (vol. 2) 31-33, 47, 55, 56, 58-62.